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1. TELEVISION: Someone took the time to make a Lego-animated recap of The Wire. It’s disconcertinly accurate, down to McNulty’s boozing and Lester’s dollhouses (via The Atlantic Wire). 2. NAMES: File...
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1. ZOE: British Olympian Zoe Smith strikes back at body haters in an extremely articulate and extremely badass blog post. 2. RACE: Nicole Moore at the Huffington Post addresses the recent announcement...
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So What Do You Do Exactly? Presidential Library Edition
For the second time ever, the featured interviewee of my jobs series So What Do You Do Exactly? is a dude! Yay for diversity! This is Kevin. Kevin works at the JFK Library Foundation in Boston...
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Great Textpectations
I so wanted to officially name this essay “Great Textpectations” but my (excellent) Role/Reboot editor vetoed in favor of something that I’m sure will drive more search traffic. I would have done it up...
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Oh Hey! An Example of Sexism in Tech
Earlier this week I went to a Chicago tech event called Technori Pitch. A keynote speaker addresses his or her expertise for twenty minutes and then a series of start-ups do five minute pitches on...
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You get no points if you don’t do the work
Last week, I wrote about a tech event I attended that threw some lip service towards the lack of ladies in tech but didn’t bother to address the “how”*. Wouldn’t it be great if there were more female...
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Apps for Bootycalling?
This week for Role/Reboot I “reviewed” a new Facebook app called “Bang with Friends.” In theory, it’s a discreet way to figure out which of your friends are down to hook up with you. In practice, I...
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“Think Like a Man” and other Silly “Pinned” Things
I like Pinterest. I have a pretty “Books to Read” board, a “Gifts” board, and the obligatory food porn in row after glossy row. In addition to the double peanut butter choco-chunk rice-crispified ding...
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I’m Reading Sandberg So You Don’t Have To (But You Should)
Yes, yes, I know, I know, Sheryl Sandberg’s book is too hip, too ubiquitous, too annoyingly in your face at every Best Seller table or airport book store “Recommended!” shelf. I, too, want to be too...
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What if instead of work trips to golf courses, we had yoga retreats?
My new piece for Role/Reboot is about gender and the workplace. I work in tech, as you know, and there’s this phenomenon that I call the “treehouse mentality.” It’s basically like the old boy’s club,...
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Sunday Scraps 107
1. GENDER: Dude writes for Quartz about adding a Mr. to his gender-neutral name and suddenly having doors open. Kind of a duh piece, but reassuring nonetheless. 2. BOOKS: Highly useful and equally...
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Everything is About Everything: New Media + Old Media
For book club, we recently read Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, a modern, bromantic, technologically-obsessed, Google-worshipping fantasy adventure in which millennial heroes and...
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Hello, Flo
True story, when I first got my period, I was staying at my friend’s house for the weekend and I didn’t tell anyone. I compensated with toilet paper for my first three cycles before woman-ing up and...
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Married and Sexist
Inspired by Pax Dickinson’s horrendous NYMag interview about his sexist Twitter history and Robin Thicke’s GQ interview about the “Blurred Lines” video, I wrote about the venn diagram of being married...
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